I think this goes without explanation but today happens to be the 22nd of October! So you know what means, Halloween is only 9 days away, 70 days are left in the year and 14 days remain till the election. I know I know, enough of the rambling, today T-mobile launches their flagship device, the G1. Haven’t heard of it yet? Stop reading and go here, here, here and here. If you didn’t pre-order and don’t plan on waking up bright and early this morning, act now because quantities are limited! Judging by the lines today out of San Francisco tomorrow morning might be a quick sell out.

Remember, if you are one of the early risers who will be waking up early to get your hands on the G1, send pics of your store line to Tmonews@gmail.com and they will be posted to our flickr page!

P.S. Black and Bronze are still the available colors for order, White is still unavailable at this time.

BELLEVUE, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the national availability of the highly anticipated T-Mobile G1 with Google, the first Android™-powered mobile phone. The T-Mobile G1 combines full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with a rich mobile Web experience, dozens of Android Market applications, and popular Google products that millions have enjoyed on the desktop, including Google Maps Street View™, Gmail™, YouTube™ and others.

Beginning today, consumers can purchase the phone in select retail stores across the country and online at http://www.T-MobileG1.com.

“During the past month, we’ve seen unbridled excitement for the T-Mobile G1 and the positive impact it will have on the mobile lives of our customers,” said Denny Marie Post, chief marketing officer, T-Mobile USA. “In fact, among those T-Mobile customers who have pre-ordered the phone, roughly half have traded up from a basic handset, illustrating the leap many consumers are taking to a rich, accessible mobile Web experience. Its design, functionality and value make the first-of-its-kind T-Mobile G1 a truly approachable device for the masses.”

With a fun and intuitive user interface and one-touch access to Google Search, the T-Mobile G1 is the first phone to offer access to Android Market, which hosts unique applications and mashups of existing and new services from developers around the world. Customers can find and download a wide range of innovative applications—from games to social networking and on-the-go shopping—to personalize their phone and enhance their mobile lifestyle. Even better, for a limited time, the dozens of applications available on Android Market are available free-of-charge for T-Mobile G1 users.

“With new, high-value applications constantly being added to Android Market for customers to discover, the T-Mobile G1 is the phone that grows with you,” said Post. “And as the Market continues to grow and evolve, the possibilities are virtually endless.”

Customers can purchase and carry away the T-Mobile G1 at T-Mobile retail stores and select third-party stores in major cities where T-Mobile’s 3G service is currently available. T-Mobile 3G service is currently available in 95 major cities across top population centers. For a list of cities where T-Mobile 3G service is available, please visit http://www.T-MobileG1.com/3G.aspx or see T-Mobile’s Personal Coverage Check tool, available online at http://www.T-Mobile.com/Coverage. All T-Mobile stores across the country will have demonstration devices on-hand and can assist customers with ordering the device for delivery at a later date.

T-Mobile is working to ensure that customers have a great experience harnessing the power of their new T-Mobile G1. Specifically:

* T-Mobile has established a collaborative online forum dedicated to the T-Mobile G1 (http://forums.T-Mobile.com) where customers can ask questions, share tips and get helpful information.
* All T-Mobile retail stores will open early at 8 a.m. on Oct. 22 to give everyone the chance to experience and purchase or order the T-Mobile G1.
* T-Mobile G1 experts will be on-hand at retail stores to demonstrate the phone and answer any questions.

For more information on the T-Mobile G1 in the U.S., please visit http://www.T-MobileG1.com.

Notes: Additional charges may apply to features and services. 3G service may not be available in all locations. Price and availability of device subject to change; taxes and other charges may apply.

About David Beren

David is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TmoNews.com. He considers himself a Jedi Knight, capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound and a connoisseur of fine cell phones. He has been involved in the wireless industry since 2003 and has been known to swap out phones far too many times in any given year. Should you wish to contact him, you can do so: david@tmonews.com.

For T-Mobile G1, there will be a bundle of tmobile g1 accessories online to select from; everything from Backup Batteries to Car Accessories, G1 Cases, Chargers, Cables, Headphones, Cradles, Bluetooth Accessories, and more. The list goes on and on, but basically the primary purposes of any g1 accessories are to add functionality, such as where you can use it and what you can use it with, make some features easier to use, and extend the use of the G1 Android phone.

Sanjath

I got mine today. Mixed feelings. Some things are good, some definitely not so good and some quite missing. I guess there is enough coverage on good things and overall I like it.

Not good (of course IMO):
– Opening the keyboard is quite jerky.
– No automatic display rotation (not sure if it has a sensor)
– Need to wait for apps
– Weird thing about yahoo mail, can be pulled only on T-Mo network but not using our wifi. (I guess it is upto Y! to write some app if they want to keep their users)
– SMS should have been in the dialer.

Really missing (must fix sooner):
– After using iPhone/iPod virtual keyboard, I kind of like virtual keyboard as the layout changes intuitively depending on the input type. It is really pain to flip open the keyboard everytime some input is required. I hope this gets addressed soon through some third party developer.
– Internal memory should be increased.
– Opening up of the device for battery and SIM card or even microSD card is painful.
– Camera: not very responsive I felt that iphone had a much better camera than this one.(is it software prob?)
– Maps/GPS: Need a way to store the current location. I cant see using it as GPS yet.

http://jessesears.blogspot.com mrwindupbird

I know the camera has a decent lens, because if you can manage to hit the decisive moment, things can look great and while slow, the autofocus does its job.

As far as the camera soft+firm (..floppy?)-ware, yea, it sucks. someone has already released an app that lets you adjust color settings and do some silly fun photo stuff after the fact.. forget what its called my dead g1 is doing its initial charge to full.

Anyone know if the camera firmware is open grounds for developers?

BL@Z3

Im waitin infront of the t-mobile store on 57th st and 7th ave right now its 7:23 there’s no line here so im happy im number 1 around my house there was only a short line of 3 ppl

mia

I got mine and absolutely love it. No phone is perfect. For instance, any new phone thats released is going to have its likes and dislikes. The makers want to see how well the phone succeeds before adding applications and features. The next Google phone might be even better and of course this g1 phone will have different applications you can add. Compare the sidekick to when it first came out to the new sidekicks. The g1 phone is no iphone but it has potential to compete with the iphone. The iphone has been having a lot of technical problems, it has no insurance, it has its own expensive plan etc.. The one thing i absolutely don’t like about the g1 phone is that its only 1GB. At least Google could have had 8GB

nasir

Lol. Ui am waiting in front of my tmobile store it is 7:56 and I am second in line! Lol with my mother lmao! Lol I have been waiting the anticipated release! Lol I will making a review and sending in pictures shorty

Galen20K

Got mine in the Mail Yesterday and its Wonderful only things I don’t like are the Slow camera response and Trying to Take off the Back Cover to reach the Battery is a Flipping NiGhTmare and I am not exagerating One Bit

Heartbreaker

Does anyone know if the WHITE one is coming out?

Armytank

Everyone is just getting it just wait. The more you get a ahng of it the better iim on the edge network in ohio and webpages load real fast. The gps loads fast. I’m really happy with the performance. You can push the camera half way in so that ypu can take pictures faster. Just press it in half way and you will see a green light in the top right of the screen. After you yakwe the picture you caan crop it and zoom in later. I’m really happy overall with the devive. Very solid.

church

Well I’m sitting in front of the store in the twin cities in Mn(the west st paul store 2 be specific) and its a lil drizzly out, there’s no line at all and the tmo ppl are just going around doing whatever they need 2 inside… that’s aite tho I got my zune playing and only 30 mins till purchase time!

Armytank

Sorry for some of the typos. Still getting used to th QWERTY. I’m going from a nokia 6263 with no buttons now I have all thwse butons.

Pythagoras

I will definitely get the G1 – but I am just glad I pre-ordered the G2 so I can get mine early!!!!!!!!

mockerfab4

I really want the white one…so I’ll just wait. ;)

HoOn

I received mine on Monday and so far so good. I have used the iPhone before so I can compare both. I’m not overly critical for what I paid for this phone that’s why I am more forgiving than others. I really like the keyboard on the G1. There is going to be a lot of other software related glitches but thank God it’s all about Android being open. Just remember that this is version 1.0 and Android is just starting out. I can just imagine the possibilities as better hardware is released for Android. ;)

Payacito

7am and been waiting in line since 2am 1st here!

Kevman420

I just got back from big TMO store in NJ.
No one on line and 2 customers buying G1.
Combo car charger and case kit was already sold out. What did they buy 2?
Anyway rep could not help me with much as I knew more than they did. They even asked me to stay and hang out. Gonna post pic in few as I had to RESET my phone as per them to solve my Market place issues as well as POP3 mail issues.
Yikes!!!

WheresMyG1

Real talk

Cons:
The keys are slippery (or is it just me)
The IM could be better (icons, custom away messages, signing on as invisible are missing) I suppose thats something Yahoo and Aim will fix
The screen doesn’t rotate unless you slide it up and expose the keyboard
Some of the apps have been freezing and I found 1 that didnt work
Battery life is eyyyy
No video camera
Camera itself kinda sucks

Pros:
Way too many too name. If they could patch up the things written above I honestly couldn’t find anything wrong with the G1

It is NOT meant to replace the iphone, but finally give it some competition which it definitely does. The apps on the G1 are amazing and there are more to come.

Safe to say that the G1 as well as the iphone are pretty much sh*ttin on almost every phone out there.

But why is removing the back door of this phone a bit*h!?

illuminati

I am at the dmv..playing with my g1 of course lol..man this phone is great…this morning on my way 2 school, I passed my local tmo store and saw a long line of people…I think they camped out….must have been at least 40 people

illuminati

Passed* y did it sensor that? Hmm

Steve

Drove by the T-mobile store (Dallas) at 8:00a this morning. No line. No one waiting in the parking lot. I could see sales associate and manager discussing things inside. I’ll go back at lunch to test out the phone.

illuminati

Omh p a s s e d lol wtf

WheresMyG1

Correction: The phone is great but the battery is bullsh*t

kp

Is anyone encountering a problem when using the google search box on the g1? When I try to do a search, i get a google page that says:
The page – http://www.google.com/ap_index – does not exist

Reid

Waiting for my number to port… this is depressing. I can’t get past the initial google sign-in screen at this point.

kp

HEY REID!
I had the SAME problem on monday. Go to a tmobile store and get your sim replaced

Kevman420

Ok I had to do phone reset to correct pop3 mail issues. So far ok.time will tell.

Lance Romance

I have had it for couple days now. coming from a sidekick LX i have no problem typing and then chin doesn’t get in my way at all.

CONS
Inability to set custom away messages in im programs along with avatars
no task manager
inability to set different themes or color variants
Battery life is short but it is to be expected from a touch phone like this.
PROS
it is a lot to list.
Apps
Myspace app! (WHERE’S FACEBOOOK?)
set mpss as ringtones
web experience
google maps and streetview
notification bar is stelar
3 home screens is a plus
up to 16 gb accepted on micro sd cards

there is alot more but i have to go get ready for skool :)

Rugar_Rell

Anyone been to a tmobile store outside to a 3G area, to see if they were selling the G1′s?

Kevman420

I stand correted still having pop3 mail issue and tmobile knows NOTHING about it. Wow!!!

Kevman420

Does anyone know when Android SP1 is coming out? It needs it BAD!!! LOL

kp

Rugar non 3g markets will not have g1′s in stores.
You can only buy it online

Dee

Where do you find the pacman app to play the game?

J

The battery life isn’t bad on GSM networks with the G1. I could see how 3G or wifi would eat it up. Unfortunately battery technology is a limiting factor for a lot of devices out there. The devices want to get thinner but get more demanding on power.

kp

Is anyone encountering a problem when using the google search box on the g1? When I try to do a search, i get a google page that says:
The page – http://www.google.com/ap_index – does not exist

Kevman420

Hey all I just got off phone with tmo. I have been informed an Android update is coming out tomorrow and will be patching registration issues and rep said maybe few other things. He said we will get message android is gonna update.

Kevman420

He also told me to shut off 3g and run in 2g to save battery life. Double yikes…

Kevman420

@dee
Pacman is no longer available.go figure???

Dee

Boo no pacman that sucks! What a tease!

Dee

FYI-

Microcenter has an 8gb mirco SD card on sale $34.99 as oppose to T-mobile who is selling it for $79.99. I bought mine at Mircocenter yesterday so buy it before the sale is over…This is in the Chicago area not sure if its on sale everywhere else.

Kevman420

@dee amazon has it for $19.99

Dee

Time to return lol man and I thought I caught a deal, thanks!

Macho

So over are you guys happy you own the g1 or are there any regrets? I just order mine this morning

kp

@Macho The only regret is the battery life. This is my first smartphone so i don’t have anything to compare batter life or anything else for that matter.

BUT, I do not at all regret getting the phone. I think it’s great!

Kevman420

@Macho
Overall HAPPY!!!
Some of the improvements to me should have been addressed already.
I am going to say something here that may piss people off but its an observation I noticed.
EVERYTHING GOOGLE does is INCOMPLETE and in BETA!!!
Even Google Earth still says BETA!!!
Gosh why can’t they finish something they start???
Oh and don’t give “Its always going to be beta as their will always be improvements” BULLDUNG!!!

JKB

When will the white one be available??????

Macho

Where can i buy the 16 gig mirco sd card?

ZX10R_AC

Got mine 2 days ago…wondered why it arrived so quickly. Awesome phone. I firmly believe that after 2 days of owning it, it is the finest phone I have owned. Very useful, and here in San Diego, 3g is pretty quick. I still haven’t completely customized it yet with tones and crap.

One problem…..the phone will go to auto lockdown in what seems like half a second, requiring me to unlock it quite often. Somewhat a PITA, but security is important, I guess.

Macho

@kevman thanx for the feedback hopefully they can fix these issues i hope this doesn’t flop

Macho

How’s the youtube? And the web browser

Kevman420

@Macho
As far as I have researched you cannot get the 16GB card for under $100 anywhere…
But the 8GB sells for as low as $19.99.
I will get the 8GB and wait for 16GB to come down in price once the manufacturers greedy palms release the 32GB thats sitting and waiting for them release until they make money off the 16GB…and so on and so on… :-)

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